{"id":3696,"date":"2016-03-09T15:29:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T23:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/fireworks-noise-carries-more-bang-than-july-4\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T11:45:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T18:45:46","slug":"fireworks-noise-carries-more-bang-than-july-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/fireworks-noise-carries-more-bang-than-july-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks noise carries more bang than July 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p class=\"p1\">This \u201cold fogey\u201d takes exception to Ms. Little\u2019s assertion that personal fireworks only occur for a day or two a year (\u201cDisappointed with vote to ban fireworks\u201d, letter to the editor, Kent Reporter, March 4).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">We contend with the noise a week or two before and after July 4, as early as 4 a.m. this past year, and New Year\u2019s Eve. A volley of explosions for every single point the Seahawks make, as well as multiple occurrences throughout the year that don\u2019t correlate to any events we are aware of, such as the evenings of March 4 and 5.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">So yes, the \u201cold fogies\u201d of this household voted for the ban since the adults using the fireworks have demonstrated year after year their unwillingness to consider others.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><strong><em>\u2013 Terri Charlesworth<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This \u201cold fogey\u201d takes exception to Ms. Little\u2019s assertion that personal fireworks only occur for a day or two a year (\u201cDisappointed with vote to ban fireworks\u201d, letter to the editor, Kent Reporter, March 4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3696"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}